735 results for '"Lena Constante'

Slippery, wet, and strange: Fish can be easier to think of as food than as fellow animals. But what do we know about these creatures we meet on our dinner table and how they got there? For the first...

With their towering, cinnamon-colored trunks and dusky green canopies, ponderosa pine has long been a charismatic icon of the American West. Yet a quiet unraveling has begun: in the past decade, in a...

Discover the definitive biography of Yogi Berra, the New York Yankees icon, winner of 10 World Series championships, and the most-quoted player in baseball history. Lawrence "Yogi" Berra was never...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • With a new afterword • From one of the world’s most influential spiritual thinkers, a long-awaited book exploring what it means that Jesus was called “Christ,” and how...

A real-world, one-of-a-kind resource for anyone who has ever been underestimated, overlooked, or misunderstood at the negotiating table.There’s no shortage of negotiation books that advise you to...

A New York Times BestsellerA vital and urgent call to action about the precarious state of American democracy, charting its historical challenges and current threats, from one of our era’s most...

The study of life in our universe has been given the name 'astrobiology'. It is a relatively new subject, but not a new discipline since it brings together several mature fields of science including...

No one works harder at playing than Americans. Indeed, as Cindy Aron reveals in this intriguing account, the American vacation has seen a constant tension between labor and leisure, especially in the...

Peter Ackroyd has been praised as one of the greatest living chroniclers of Britain and its people. In Rebellion, he continues his dazzling account of the history of England, beginning with the...

In this age of intense political conflict, we sense objective fact is growing less important. Experts are attacked as partisan, statistics and scientific findings are decried as propaganda, and...

Tom Lowe's identity and his pride are invested in the work he does with his back and his hands. He designed and built his family's dream home, working extra hours to pay off the adjustable rate...

At a time when society is more fractured than ever before, beloved Jesuit priest Gregory Boyle invites us to see the world through a new lens of connection and build the loving community that we long...

The world of the troubadours of medieval Provence—of Bertran de Born, Arnaut de Mareuil, and Peire Bremon lo Tort—always fascinated Ezra Pound and, as Stuart McDougal shows, provided both themes and...

A delightful full-color graphic adaptation of the beloved Yi Jing—or I Ching—by bestselling comic-artist C. C. Tsai In this volume, acclaimed comic-artist C. C. Tsai uses his virtuosic skill and sly...

An innovative retrospective look at the work of one of America's most iconic artists, utilizing the concepts of mirroring and doubling, which have long preoccupied Johns Jasper Johns (b. 1930) is...

A compelling account of how a group of Hasidic Jews established its own local government on American soilSettled in the mid-1970s by a small contingent of Hasidic families, Kiryas Joel is an American...

Partant du postulat que les limites de la reprsentation, dans la tradition artistique occidentale, ont t soumises des tensions constantes menant a de multiples transgressions, le prsent ouvrage...

An instant New York Times bestseller! “A meditative, charming delight.” —School Library Journal (starred review) An unlikely team of talkative plants, a curious spider, and a grumpy goldfish use...

Quelle image a-t-on des Spartiates, sinon celle de professionnels de la guerre, capables de vaincre les Atheniens a l'issue de la guerre du Peloponnese, en 404 avant J.-C. ? En fait, cette perception...

A riotous revenge novel about a woman’s quest to escape her stalker ex-boyfriend—by stalking him herself.Clarice’s breakup with P.T. began the usual way—she discovered he was cheating. Then came the...